Simple question: If I choose not to apply a camo scheme but instead paint my tank in whatever color I fancy (red? yellow? bright orange with pink dots?), does that still give "camo" to the tank just like a camo pattern would?

I saw an extremely ugly, but very cool, tank the other day. Just tickled my fancy a bit.

Come to think about it, client-side it should be possible to simply redefine a pattern to be entirely transparent. There is a mod that does that for all tanks and camos; the idea would be to limit it to one pattern per season per nation - if at all possible.

If you have that Holiday ops camo which is un-historical, you can pair it with paints that are historical and disable un-historical elements in game settings. This way you only see the paint but retain the concealment bonus from the camouflage. Hopefully there would be more options for this in the future.

Come to think about it, client-side it should be possible to simply redefine a pattern to be entirely transparent. There is a mod that does that for all tanks and camos; the idea would be to limit it to one pattern per season per nation - if at all possible.

Annoyingly not every nation has semi-transparent camos, and then there are only a limited selection available. They should make it so you can make all camo patterns semi-transparent, giving you the option to turn off one of the colours to have the base coat shine through.

The transparent digital winter camo plus a base coat looks really cool, but you can't really replicate this with many summer and desert camos.

Annoyingly not every nation has semi-transparent camos, and then there are only a limited selection available. They should make it so you can make all camo patterns semi-transparent, giving you the option to turn off one of the colours to have the base coat shine through.

The transparent digital winter camo plus a base coat looks really cool, but you can't really replicate this with many summer and desert camos.

Annoyingly not every nation has semi-transparent camos, and then there are only a limited selection available. They should make it so you can make all camo patterns semi-transparent, giving you the option to turn off one of the colours to have the base coat shine through.

The transparent digital winter camo plus a base coat looks really cool, but you can't really replicate this with many summer and desert camos.

Maybe a minor change to this idea would something like an opacity slider, so you can set how transparent you want it to be, which could make for some awesome looking paintjobs